Roadmap Discussion

Notices / Schedule

We are here on the schedule (.ics link). This is the time for speculative low-risk fixes on Beta and other less critical fixes prior to convergence in Beta 5 and Beta 6 (where we restrict what we land).

Lukas Blakk (of RelEng fame) will be helping with Release Management triaging, tools work, and the ESR branch in the near future!

Firefox Development

Tim Taubert improved page thumbnail collection by implementing mozFetchAsStream() on canvas elements, to avoid an inefficient call toDataURL. Telemetry data shows that thumbnail capture times are pretty efficient, but there are non-trivial amount of cases where storing them in the cache is slow. Work on cache performance that the network team is doing might help with that.

Frank Yan is working on a new revision of about:home (bug 711157), see screenshots there for the new look

Felipe Gomes has added a TelemetryStopwatch module to make it easy to add front-end telemetry probes (bug 723561) - check out his blog post

Identity

Plugins

Patch for bug 501485 landed on inbound today: Destroy plugin processes after three minutes of not being used. Timer starts when the last instance is destroyed, is canceled if a new instance is created before it fires. Keep an eye out for any issues.

Mobile

Holding the release for OpenGL Layers on Android

part of the mobile team supporting GFX on that project

the rest concentrating on stability, bug fixes and profiling for perfomance